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Youth-Led Protesters Rally Against Modi’s Right-Wing Government

HeadlineJul 21, 2026

In India, tens of thousands of youth-led protesters have rallied against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling for the resignation of India’s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. Protesters are blaming him for the leak of national exam questions that were circulated on social media, forcing millions of students to retake the exam. Some students ended up dying by suicide after studying for the exam for years. Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the so-called Cockroach Janta Party, blamed India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ordering a bloody crackdown on protesters.

Abhijeet Dipke: “Today, what the Delhi police have done, the way they beat students, the way they hit them in their heads, it was very shameful. Due to this, the country’s reputation is being damaged worldwide. And we all know why Delhi police did all of this: because they received orders from Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.”

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